{"id":2998,"date":"2010-06-26T19:47:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T00:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2010-06-26T19:47:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T00:47:48","slug":"bitter-disappointment-at-the-hands-of-ghana-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/26\/bitter-disappointment-at-the-hands-of-ghana-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Disappointment At The Hands of Ghana (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How disappointing.  Yes, as the announcers said, this US team should not hang its head in shame; hold \u2018em high boys.  Still.  What could have been?<\/p>\n<p>Once again the US went down early; this time inside of the 5 minute mark.  I just do not get how we can have such poor defensive lapses, which is what happened again on the winner in the first few minutes of extra time as Ghana easily split the last two US defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Making matters worse is that the US just does not have a top notch striker; a finisher who can consistently find the net.  We had some chances, but there comes a time and a place where the chances have to find the back of the net.  The US just does not have that quality up front that you know given the chance will win the day.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure where to from here.  I\u2019ll have to reflect on the bitter sting of this one for a while, as I am sure Team USA will be doing the same, with the realization that they squandered a golden opportunity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How disappointing. Yes, as the announcers said, this US team should not hang its head in shame; hold \u2018em high boys. Still. What could have been? Once again the US went down early; this time inside of the 5 minute mark. I just do not get how we can have such poor defensive lapses, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/26\/bitter-disappointment-at-the-hands-of-ghana-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bitter Disappointment At The Hands of Ghana (Again)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-u-s-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}